School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)
- Location:
- Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)butter from the oak. He used make them with an instrument called a coopers adze.
Spinning and weaving:
Spinning and weaving were done around here long ago by the old people. They spun all their own clothes long ago, from the sheep's wool. The material used for the making of the men's coats was called frieze. There is an old spinning wheel to be seen in Lyon's of Bawndonnell still, and in my house there is a farm which was used for the spinning wheel.
Flax was also grown around here and from it they weaved their own sheets. The woman of the house always had the sheets made from the flax in the house. That is probably how Toor got its name, for the flax used to be bleached before it was used and "Tuair" means a bleaching green.
Chairs.:
Chairs were made of wooden frames and sugán bottoms to them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- C. Murphy
